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Here on Earth

by Jeffrey Wainwright
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781800172753
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 88
  • Original Price: GBP 11.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 130 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

We are still here on earth. With a troubled sense of wonder, Jeffrey Wainwright's new book witnesses to that earth's ordinariness, profusion, and mystery. The collection begins with his beginning, a poem that evokes his own birth: 'Here I Come.' He concludes inevitably with 'Here I Go.' In between are poems that describe and contemplate on the variety of life, ranging from a fleeing mouse to geology and gravity. History features, as so often in his poetry, with the earth's transition from inanimate matter to the fearsome and various place we know. There is a sequence on contemporary Manchester, another on the domestic and wider presence of coal, and a series on the iniquities of the British Empire--histories that connect and contend with one another. Describing this last sequence, Shirley Chew notes the poet's 'preoccupation with words and history, ' his 'self-reflexive wit' and the 'wry look' he takes at the poet's art itself. He is a master of tones of voice, of registers, of patterns and rhythms, and his characteristic inventiveness is everywhere to be found in this book which touches on so many timely and timeless concerns Here on Earth.

Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent, educated locally and at Leeds University where he benefited from the poetry scene sustained by Jon Silkin, Ken Smith, Geoffrey Hill, and others. He taught for many years at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also translated drama (from French) and his critical prose includes Poetry: the Basics and Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill. This is his ninth volume of poetry, all published by Carcanet. He lives with his wife in Manchester and for parts of the year in Umbria and New South Wales.

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